Wednesday 4 July 2012

Lista Fyr

Each year between 30.000 and 40.000 people visit Lista Lighthouse. And this week, so did we. We packed our lunches and went exploring the beautiful scenery around the 34 meter high lighthouse - one amongst many cathedrals of the coastline of Norway. We  had a salty experience accompanied by the sound of wind and waves.

Magic at the lighthouse


Lots of stairs to climb...


A little rest before we start exploring
Nyperosa - an art installation. Free to use for anyone
who might want to spend the night 
I have spent a lot of time in the little white house to the left;
a childhood  friend was the daughter of the lighthouse
keeper at the time!

Family photo in front of the JFK art installation... 
...1 2 3...everybody JUMP!!! 
...say: lighthoooooooooouse!
Picking flowers with Besta

Wind in our hair!

Landscape as flat as a pancake!



Everything so green! 
Little flower - big flower! 
Exploring the bunkers 
Love the straws swinging in the wind... 

View from our lunch spot 
Mmmmm....food tastes so good out in fresh air!
Mwahh! 
Ready to roll...
Fantapants! 
...'if the bulls come chase us, let's just jump in here!'
Flowergirl Milla!
What a great day! And the bulls (there were heaps of them there!) did not come running after us!!! Ha ha ha....

Monday 2 July 2012

American Festival

The Lister region is famous for their Norwegian-American culture. Every year they host an American Festival to celebrate cultural memories from the emigration era around the 1950s. What was so special was that so many people came back home again after being 'over there' chasing their dreams. And many people brought back memories, lingo and typical American artifacts - that still is a part of life in this area today. People hold a little piece of America in their hearts!

Even street names are in the American spirit
Norwegian-American life
Minnie Mouse & the need for speed!
Elliot and pappa watching the parade
Even the King was there!
The local Elvis Presley
JFK and Jackie Kennedy waved to the people
Hillbilly music...check out the 'foxtail'...
Everything is big in America! Huge trucks in the parade
Hmmmm....Bong-station around the corner?!?!
Icecreams all around!
In front of the pub. Of course it has an American name:
8th Avenue 

Howdy partner! Lots of fun at the American Festival!


I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICECREAM

First day at Besta and Besten's house - and the icecream truck arrived! Could it be any better?!

Hmmmm...what to choose??

Lucky girls! Four boxes of icecream!

Happy Elliot!

Even Besten got a box of Boat icecreams!


Mmmmmmm! Yummy!!!


Leaving on a jet plane...

Yay! Unlimited time of tv-watching!!! Good the girls was able to find something positive in 44 hours of travel...

Checked in and ready to go!

Very excited! Butterflies all around!

Are we there yet???

Tv - tv - tv!!!

And some more tv!

...almost there! Amsterdam.

Come on girls! Let's dangle!

Airplanes all over the place!

A looooooong journey - but SO worth it!